776 So. 2d 203 - Ex Parte Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2022
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Berkery v. Commissioner · Ramirez v. United States · Dick v. Kemp · Lowenschuss v. Resorts International, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I know from my service in the Alabama House of Representatives when that language originated that the legislature intended for this new alternative to reach only clandestine remaining — that is hiding inside the premises to await an opportune time to commit the intended crime. Ex parte Gentry, 689 So.2d 916 (Ala.1996), • respected this limitation. Davis v. State, 737 So.2d 480 (Ala.1999), in overruling Gentry and eliminating this limitation, exceeds the intent of the legislature and violates the rule that criminal statutes be strictly construed against the State. The Davis rule will allow burglary convictions of unruly guests in fact scenarios never contemplated by the legislature as burglaries. We should return to the faithful Gentry interpretation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Casey v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.